Thursday, April 11, 2013

We will never die

Upset over the exam result, a student
commits suicide. A man was facing acute economic hardships so he decided to end
his life along with his wife and children. Many such incidents we regularly
read in newspapers or hear about it. Sometime people get so overwhelmed by
their situations and circumstances that they feel by ending their life all
their miseries will cease to exist.

But this is not going to happen because we
are souls and so our life will never end i.e. we are never going to die. This
is confirmed in Bhagavad – Gita 2.13:- As the embodied soul continuously
passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly
passes into another body at death.

Human life is a gift of God, so committing
suicide is a sin. So, if someone ends his life on his own then he is in fact
aggravating his miseries and not reducing it. Our past karma will always
accompany us.

The problems which we are facing now are
because of something wrong which we have done in the past. Let us try to face
the challenges which life offers us with positive mindset and not get too much
disturbed by it.In fact in this world we
cannot expect “no miseries”. Bhagavad – Gita 2.14 provides an approach to deal
with challenges “O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness
and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance
and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense
perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being
disturbed”